Anyone taping or videotaping?
by jsibley
When I work as a therapist, I videotape some of my sessions. This has been helpful for for my own learning (self-review and supervision) and has been helpful for some clients, who have watched DVDs of their sessions. In other settings, videotapes and audiotapes have been extremely helpful for researching what appears to be most helpful for clients (and what appears to be not helpful, in some cases).
So, I’m wondering if there are any coaches reading this who have tried videotaping or audiotaping and what your experience has been. Presumably, your clients have signed consent forms, so there has been a discussion about the taping.
Does anyone think that there are reasons why coaching clients would be less likely to agree to taping than therapy clients, or why using tapes for learning and supervision would be less helpful? I’d be interested in those opinions, as well.
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Jonathan Sibley, LCSW, MBA is a practicing coach and psychotherapist and is chief pot-stirrer for dialog about the relationship between coaching and psychotherapy. After receiving his MBA at INSEAD and a successful career at a Fortune 100 corporation, Jonathan went on to receive his MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work and to study coaching at Executive Coach Academy. Jonathan brings an integrative and multi-cultural perspective to both coaching and psychotherapy and works in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
Jonathan has presented on the relationship between coaching and psychotherapy at annual conferences of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and the North American Society of Psychotherapy Research (NASPR). Jonathan also leads the Coaching and Psychotherapy Special Interest Group of the International Coach Federation. For more information about me, please click here
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I just worked with a colleague who tapes participants during a conflict resolution workshop and it was just what I had been considering for a coaching workshop. My plan is to tape the managers in my workshop who are practicing coaching skills. I have used this with other topics, and you are right- the learning is magnified by 10!!
I hope some others will share their experiences….